6 Responses to “Tour De Force”

I currently live in a country in South Asia where I work for the US Government and am on a fellowship where my portfolio can be summed up as “cultural immersion.”

For all the rhetoric about us not knowing anything about the world, the level of misunderstanding, inaccuracy and outright ignorance about the US among people here who are educated and have even traveled a bit is astonishing.

I read the most amazing piece on anti-Americanism yesterday and I particularly recommend it to pseudo-intellectuals (you know who you are) who think they seem smarter when they put down America and talk up Europe as the promised land. For…